Chilota mythology is based on
a mixture of indigenous religions (the Chonos and Huilliches) that live in the
Archipelago of Chiloé, and the legends and superstitions brought by the Spanish
Conquistadores, who in 1567 began the process of conquest in Chiloé and with it
the fusion of elements that would form a separate mythology.
Chilota mythology flourished,
isolated from other beliefs and myths in Chile, due to the separation of the
archipelago from the rest of the Spanish occupation in Chile, when the Mapuches
occupied or destroyed by all the Spanish settlements between the Bío-Bío River
and the Chacao channel following the disaster of Curalaba in 1598.
